Cloth-doubling machine.



No. 6 74,3|0. Patented May I4, I90l.

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No. 674,3I0. I Patented May l4, I90l. J. E. wmnus.

CLOTH DOUBLING MACHINE.

(Application 'fllad Mar. 21-, 1900.1

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. UNITE-D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' JOHN E. WINDLE, OF NORTH GRAFTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLOTH-DOUBLING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 674,310, dated May 14, 1901.

. Application filed March 21, 1900- Serial No. 91539. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. WINDLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at North Grafton, county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Cloth-Doubling Machines,of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention in cloth-doubling machines has for itsobject novel means to sustain the cloth passing to the doubling devices, said means also containing means for measuring the cloth, the measuring means being represented as driven by a belt which is controlled as to its time of operation and the movements of the measuring means by the measured material to be doubled, it entering or being deposited in a counterbalanced receptacle intervening between the measuring means and By arresting the operation of the measuring means when the receptacle in which said means delivers the measured material is too full it is possible to not only move the winding means continuously, but also to provide for variations in speed of the winding mechanism receiving the doubled cloth. The winding mechanism runs at an established speed and winds the cloth at a progressively-faster surface speed as the mass of cloth accumulates on the usual winding board or roller of said winding means.

I am the first, I believe, to measure cloth and deliver it in a receptacle from which it t is taken automatically to an apparatus for winding the measured cloth, said measured cloth if delivered to the receptacle faster than the winding means can care properly for it being arrested, the measuring means remaining at rest until in the operation of the machine a sufficient portion of the cloth previously deposited in said receptacle has been taken therefrom to Warrant further delivery of measured cloth to the receptacle.

While my machine herein to be described is more especially adapted to measuring cloth, yet my invention is not intended to be limited to winding and measuring only cloth or only cloth which is to be doubled, for my invention may have a broader application and use,

and I intend to claim it for all uses in bandling webs of any sort.

Figure 1 is an elevation in perspective of a machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2is a right-hand side elevation of a doubling-ma chine embodying my invention. Fig. 3 is a rear end View of the machine shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail of the measuring means in end elevation. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the parts shown in Fig. 4, and Fig. 6 is a detail to be referred to.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a suitable framework having hearings to for a main shaft A, having a fast pulley A and a loose pulley A driven from any suitable counter-shaft. The shaft A has attached to it two like pinions a, which engage like toothed gears a suitably mounted to rotate in standards A erected on the main frame. Short shafts a a extended from said toothed wheels a and having suitable usual boardholders a, one of which is shown in the drawings, the other being concealed by the cloth, hold a suitable board, upon which is wound the cloth B. The main shaft Ahas connected to it at its right-hand end, as best shown in Fig. 2, a suitable belt-pulley A which. receives a belt b, extended over a pulley I),

(see Fig. 6,) sustained by a suitable stud, said stud having a collar b which is held thereon by a suitable set-screw, the collar keeping the pulley b in its operative position.

The pulley b has a sleeve-hub provided at its end with a beve1-gearb which in turn engages a bevel-gear b, as represented in Fig. 6'

and by dotted lines, (see Fig. 2,) fast on a shaft 19*, mounted in a suitable standard I),

supported by the frame A, said shaft having fixed to it a pulley b which drives a belt b extended over a pulley 19 (see Figs. 2 and3,)'

loose on a fixed rod b sustained in brackets ,D herein represented as connected by bolts D with a movable frame D The pulley b has fast to it, at one side thereof, a second pulley 12 which in this instance of my invention (see Fig. 4) is represented as surrounded loosely by a belt 0 said belt constituting a friction-surface for the pulley Z9 This belt is represented as of leather; but I may employ any friction-surface applied to the pulley 19 in any usual manner, said friction-surface contacting with a pulley c fast on a shaft 0 also sustained in suitable bearings in said bracket. The shaft 0 carries a measuring drum 0 and has suitable bearings 0 sustained by boxes 2 in the framework, the boxes at the right-hand side of Fig. 2 being repre sented as provided with a shank 3, (see Fig. 3,) which enters loosely a hole in the bracket D each bearing 2 having suitable adjustingscrews 0', (see Fig. 4,) which act against the bearing, made as a circular block, having pits at its side to receive the ends of said screws, the adjustment of the screws insuring the proper alinement of the measuring-roller to thereby insure the proper direction of travel for the cloth passing over it. The shank 3 has a notch 4 at one side, which is entered by one end of a lever 5, pivoted at 6, the. longer end of said lever being extended outwardly or at the right, as best shown in Fig. 4, to be engaged by a toe 7, connected with a lever 8, pivoted at 9 on the standard D said lever having mounted upon it adjustably a suitable counterbalance or weight 10, held in its adjusted position by a suitable screw 12. The shaft 9, supporting the lever 8, has two like arms 13, one shown in Fig. 5 and extended, as herein represented, toward the measuring-roller 0 the inner ends of said arms receiving suitable bolts 14, (see Fig. 5,) by which to suspend suitable links 15, connected at their lower ends by rivets 16 to the ends of a receptacle D, the weight 10 being adjusted to counterbalance the weight of the receptacle, and said weight may be so adjusted as to also counterbalance a part of the weight of cloth to be fed into the receptacle.

From the foregoing description it will be understood that the counterbalance 10 may be adjusted to provide for any desired quantity of cloth to enter the receptacle before the receptacle will be moved, and the quantity of cloth greater than the amount determined by the adjustment of the counterbalance having been fed into the receptacle the latter will descend and the toe 7 will turn the lever 5, elevating its short end that it -may contact with the shoulder 3 and lift the measuring-roller so that it will remain at rest until the surplus amount of measured material has been taken from the receptacle, when the I receptacle will again rise and start into operation the measuring means. In this way it will be understood that the measured material controls the time of operation and the extent of operation of the measuring means.

The inclined rods 61, located below the rollers D constitute smoothing-rods and are common to my Patent No. 523,499.

The belt 19 runs over a suitable idle pulley d, suitably sustained on astud d. The frame A has erected upon one side of it a track d which receives upon it grooved wheels d mounted to turn loosely about suitable studs (1 extended from the movable frame D which is substantially of the length of the side frame A, said frame having at suitable points suitable wheels (1 which run on short tracks (i of the framework. The frame D has a lateral extension (1 to sustain a suitable platform or board (Z the outer end of said frame having suitable wheels (Z which run on suitable short tracks (Z fixed on the floor. The frame D carrying the measuring-wheel and the receptacle D, is made movable on the said tracks,so that the median line of the cloth or the center of the cloth with relation to its width in the direction of its length may be put when on the roller 0 at exactly the proper position with relation to the outer point of the usual truncated former composed of a bar 0' and rods 0, as fully described in United States Patent No. 523,499, dated July 24:, 1894, such provision of moving the carriage and measuring-roller at right angles to the winding means and transversely of the former being necessary to insure the doubling of the cloth substantiallyin its centralline, thus enabling any piece of cloth to be properly alined ready to be folded.

The measuring-roll o actuates in practice suitable recording means which may be of any usual or suitable construction, said recording means beingherein represented as a dial 6, suitably figured on its face and having cooperating with it a suitable pointer e, the pointer being carried by a shaft deriving its motion, as herein represented, from a suitable worm 6 moving with the measuringroll o The frame D has erected upon it a suitable tension device, represented as a shaft 6', mounted in suitable bearings and having at one end a hand-wheel e and a locking-plate e, said shaft having connected arms carrying a rod 6 the rod 0 being swept in against the cloth to to wind it more or less about the shaft 0 by turning the hand-wheel, a suitable dog a cooperating with the locking-plate to keep the tension device in its operative position.

Change of position of the tension device enables the tension on the cloth to be varied at will, according to the solidity desired for the winding and the class of material being wound.

The movable frame D has below the ten sion device a guiding-rollerf, havingits bearing held adjustably by suitable set-screwsf', and at the upper ends of said frame there is another guiding-roller f suitably held in adjusted position.

The cloth to to be handled in this machine, whether measured only or whether measured and doubled, is laid in a pile upon the platform,as indicated, and is led thence upwardly over the measuring-roller c and is thence delivered therefrom into the receptacle D, and from said receptacle the measured cloth passes over the guide-roll f down between the movable frame D and the main frame A, crossing the rear side of a suitable board f connected with the movable frame D by suitable bolts 20, said measured cloth thence passing through the tension device and over the guide-roll f, it passing from said guideroll over the truncated former and, leaving said former, passing between the guide-rod d and between pressure-rollers D D both common to said patent, to the winding means.

I believe that I am the first to measure cloth or material into a receptacle and to take the measured cloth from the receptacle to double it,'whether the receptacle is or is not influenced as to its position by the weight of the cloth fed into it. By, however, making the receptacle movableit is possible to econo-- mize space and use a smaller receptacle than though the receptacle were stationary; but my invention would not be departed from wholly were the receptacle stationary and of a size sufficient to receive all the cloth in any piece to be measured and folded.

Having described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a machine of the class described, measuring means controlled as to the time of its operation by the cloth, winding means and a receptacle intermediate the measuring-roller and the winding means, to receive the measured material, the winding means taking the measured cloth from said receptacle.

2. In a machine of the class described, measuring means, and a counterbalanced receptacle to receive the material as it is measured, combined with winding means.

3. In a machine of the class described, measuring means controlled as to the time of its operation by the cloth, a receptacle to'receive the measured cloth, doubling means, and

winding means.

4. In a machine of the class described, a con nterbalanced receptacle, measuring means to measure and deliver cloth to said receptacle, winding means, and means to suspend the operation of said measuring means when a predetermined weight of cloth has been measured into the receptacle.

5. In a machine of the class described, a counterbalanced receptacle,measuring means to measure and deliver cloth to said receptacle, winding means, means to suspend the operation of said measuring means when a predetermined weight of cloth has been measured into the receptacle, and doubling means.

6. In a machine of the class described, measuring means, means for driving said measuring means to move the material, and winding means to wind'the measured material.

7. In a machine of the class described, measuring means, means for driving said measuring means to move the material, doubling means, and winding means to wind the measured and doubled material,

8. In a machine of the class described, measuring means, and means independent of the material being measured to move said measuring means, combined with means controlled by the measured material to start or stop the measuring means as may be desired.

9. In a machine of the class described, measuring means, and means independent of the material being measured to move said measuring means,combined with means controlled by the measured material to start or stop the measuring means as may be desired, and winding means to wind the measured material.

10. In a machine of the class described, a measuring-roller, a continuously-rotating pulley, a friction-surlace loosely sustained on said pulley, and means controlled by the measured material to carry the measuringroller and friction-surface into or out of en gagement.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN E. WINDLE.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, LAURA T. MANIX. 

